Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-01

in a twinkling she had pair of trousers,
not especially elegsUs To tie eye, but ss
Z StrVlceRbie almost as Uuckskin.
Now the Governor wears broadclotR
While the little chaps who made sport of
his coarse breeches years ego still dig in
the dirt among the lills Of Highland
county.
The Governors mother IL relating the
incident, declares ttat ne yelemeutly
protested against the coffee sack outfit,
saying: "AIl The boys Will laugh at me
if l wear it,
''Never heed what the boys saw" re-
pied the mother. eff you become use
tul mau nobody will ask what kind of
pantaloons you wore when q child The
lad put them on, the boys laughed sure
enough, and years after these very same
! brooches were paraded in the newspapers
and daugled on the stump when the
owner thereof was & candidate for Gov
ernOr.
The Foraker library consisted OF scopv
OF "JOSephus," "PHgrim'5 Progress"
and Joseph Benson's commentary on the
Bible" The family were devout Metho-
dlsts, ard the eleven children-six BOYS
and i've giris-were all brought up in that
faith School houses IN those days were
made OF logs, while birds sud bats built
nests in the chinks. Foraker is = young
man and has hardly passed his fortleth
mile post. 1t has only been s. few wears
since Ohio was wilderness, and all the
great men produced here have virtually
grown up IN the woods. Grant, Sheridan,
the two Shermans John and William t.,
Garfield, Rosecrsns, Hayes and Thurman,
were pioneers or the sons of pioneers,
and were reared among fallen trees and
by the side OF running water, and under
the shadows of Ohio's tall hills.
At sixteen Foraker went TO war. de
was rugged young fellow, the first re-
cruit mustered into the Eighty-ninth Ohio
infantry and the last one mustered out
At seventeen no commanded his company
in the battle of Mission Ridge, ard lister
he carried important messages from
Sherman to Lincoln and the generals
serving under the hero of the Atlanta
campaign. When the war was over ne
was doing staff duty for General SlOCum.
Returning home ne learned that "the GIRL
ne had left behind" had Joined her for
tunes with that of another fellow. To
this day the little dun pony on whose
back young Foraker was wont to ride
when he ACQUIRING went can be seen
feeding in the fields at the old home
stead
The disturbance il the south being over
Foraker prepared himself for college st
the Wesleyan University at Delaware,
Ohio, and entered Cornell, graduating
therefrOm in the first class that left that
institution. At twenty-three he was 2
lawyer in Cincinnati, and twelve months
sfter he was married 10 Miss JuIia Bundy,
q daughter of Hon. II. S. BundY of jack
son, Ohio. Bundy WAS Q member of Con
gress during the war, and q personal
friend of Lincoln.
The Governors family is made up of
one son anG three daughters, all of wnOm
attend the public schools Of Columbus.
At Mrs F0raker's request the Governor
sst himself down 70 prepare an sutObiOg-
raphy some years since He wrote sew
eral hundred words of the preface and
then abandoned the task
For young man Foraker was very
successful ss 8 lawyer, and an intimate
friend of his recently informed me that
he cleared at least $4,000 year before
he entered politics. He was taken up by
the people Of Cincinnati and elected GO g
judgeship when very Young man, and
thence he was sent to the gUJernatOr.sI
mansion while still on the sunny side of
forty. When he was inRuGuUqted wear
and half ago his father and mother,
wife and four children were on
the platform to witness the Cere-
mOny. HOadly and Foraker, old and
new, came UpOGthe platform arm and arm.
They took their places snd then Governor
Hoadly spoke his farewell words. The
two men grasped hands the people
cheered, the silver haired father smiled
proudly and the fond mother shed s 81
lent tear. It was On inspiring picture
you well may believe. The Governor that
was and the Governor that was 70 ys
were personal friends, although the one
had defeated the other liz 8 crest pOIti-
cal battle wherein & handsome trophy
was the stake. Yet they claSped hands
without guile and pledged anew their
warm attachment, thus presenting to
view, as Garfield would hSve said, one Of
the beautiful flowers that bloom on the
wall of party politics.
Like all successful men, Foraker nas
had considerable Of load 70 carry. He
a fine farm Of 10 acres for MS
parents, and was compelled to 20 in debt
and depend on his law practice to meet
the payments. He has been the biggest
member in the family, and in consequence
thereof the burdens of each individual
therein have been lightened at mis- ex-
Dense. In addition to all this, politics
las not been paying financial invest
nent to him. His fine law practice was
sacrificed for the honorable position of
Governor, which, in the great state OF
Ohio, only pays the occupant $4,000 per
yea. By virtue OF q law enacted last
winter, however, succeeding governors
will be paid $1,000.
JAMES B. Morrow.